Oasis Environmental Practices Oasis Environmental Practices

Environmental Hurdles, Creative Solutions:
The Oasis Greener Foot Forward Initiative

  • All Oasis board and paper packaging is printed on 100% Green Forestry Practices certified stock. Green Forestry Practices certified means we don’t promote forest monoculture, clear-cutting of virgin, old-growth timber, nor contribute to other destructive forestry practices.
  • Over 99% of the inks we use to create Oasis projects are eco-friendly, vegetable-based inks.
  • All the scrap polycarbonate, board, paper, and other industrial waste that can be effectively reused is captured in our plant for recycling.
  • All of our manufacturing is domestic and nearly all of it is done under our own auspices, leading to one of the lower carbon footprints in the industry. In other words, Oasis helps reduce excessive strain on the environment by efficiently manufacturing and printing in our own facility, rather than farming out your work all over the country and even all over the globe, a standard practice for the brokers who predominate in the independent disc replication industry.

Order your Oasis Environmental Packaging Sample Kit here

Kermit was right: Being green is tough.

Especially when your job, your passion, is creating. Here are at Oasis we’ve been puzzling over this conundrum for years. How can we serve our artistic clients, while limiting the stress we place on our planet?

We do it through environmental practices, and through making cool stuff.

The cool stuff: Making great eco-packaging for you
We have a long lineup— recently greatly expanded— of environmentally friendly, eco-packaging options. Also as mentioned above, everything in the Oasis line, including conventional jewel case packaging, has some environmentally friendly elements due to our use of certified safe forestry practices paper stock and post consumer recycled content.

Here is a who’s who of our eco-packaging options:

The Digipak:
Available in 4, 6, and 8 panels, and in a wide variety of options, and now, we have recently commissioned CD industry’s first 100% recycled standard Digipak tray and are now offering it to you at no additional charge. (recycled tray option available in black at present. White and clear also available at same low price.) Learn more about this package and get a quote.

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NEW! — Drink It Up

Oasis Solves the Plastic Bottle Problem — with your Help! Introducing 100% post-consumer clear digipak flex-trays. Made completely from recycled soda pop bottles, an order of 1,000 keeps four hundred bottles out of a landfill. A great new look and feel, available only at Oasis. Click here for more information!

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The Oasis Soft-Spot Package:

NEW LOWER PRICE
Available in 4, 6, and 8 panel options. The Oasis Soft-Spot uses nearly zero plastic, yet holds your disc gently and securely in place, thanks to a unique hexagonal nub in the center. Learn more about this package and get a quote.
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The Green Wallet:
Available in 4 and 6 panel options.These very affordable eco-wallets are available at a special price “naked” (no poly) for a completely plastic-free option. The 4 panel is available with or without a spine depending on your preference; the 6 panel always includes a spine. Can hold one or two discs depending on design. Learn more about this package and get a quote.

green components in the green wallet

The Secret Envelope:
Tucks closed like a handmade secret envelope, opens to reveal your disc inside. Learn more about this package and get a quote.

green components in the Oasis Secret Envelope

Green Forestry Sleeves:
CDs for A Buck –or less! No plastic, just a simple board sleeve, but printed in 4 colors and looking like a million bucks. Learn more about this package and get a quote.

green components in the green forestry sleeves

The Jewel-Free Box:
Available in 4, 6, and 8 panel options. Only Oasis offers you this exclusive swinging-tray option to make your CD truly stand out. This was our first – and is perhaps still our most famous – entry into eco-packaging for indie musicians. The tray that holds your CD swings freely back and forth so it doesn’t hide a graphics panel like a glued-down tray would. Learn more about this package and get a quote.

green components in the jewel-free box

The Oasis Rough Look:
The Oasis Rough Look package is a four-panel wallet made of 100% recycled heavy kraft (light brown) board stock, with more than 70% post-consumer content. It’s printed in one color of ink (black usually works best) using an antique printing method called letterpress. Another Oasis exclusive. Learn more about this package and get a quote.

green components in the Oasis Rough Look

Oasis Retail Display Racks :
Improved (and still free) — The exclusive Oasis Retail Display Racks (5 free with every order) are now molded from 100% recycled plastic . Price: Priceless. Learn more.

green components in Oasis retail display boxes